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"Robert Murray M'Cheyne" was the subject of the Evangelical Library Annual Lecture given by Rev. John J. Murray in 1993. This is available as a 32 page booklet with the sub-title "The Making of a Man of God". It is well researched and contains 60 references, 23 of which are for quotes from Yeaworth's 1957 unpublished PhD thesis (see M'Cheyne main page or view Abstract).
Published by Focus Christian Ministries Trust, 6 Orchard Road, Lewes, E.Sussex. ISBN 1-870223-25-X. For further details please contact Mr S J Taylor, Librarian, The Evangelical Library, 78a Chiltern Street, London W1M 2HB. Tel : +44 (0)171 935 6997. email stlibrary@aol.com
"A Lecture on the life and poetry of the Rev. R. M. MacCheyne." With an appendix on behalf of the Field Lane Ragged School ... By a Ragged School Teacher. Published: London, 1847. 12o. Information from the British Library Public Catalogue [Shelfmark: 4955.aa.38.(3.)]
Did you know that it was a visit to this Ragged School in the Camden district of London in 1843 that inspired the famous novelist Charles Dickens to write, "A Christmas Carol"?
"Robert Murray M'Cheyne (1813-1843)" by David F. Haslam. This lecture was given at the meeting of the Summer School at St Mary's Church, Cheadle, Cheshire, UK held on Wednesday 13th August, 2003. The full paper in PDF format can be downloaded here from my own web-site. An audio recording was made, copies of which may be obtained by writing to St Mary's Tape Library. For contact details, please visit the web-site for Cheadle Parish Church.
The following articles by or about M'Cheyne have appeared in The Banner of Truth magazine.
Published by The Banner of Truth Trust, The Grey House, 3 Murrayfield Road, Edinburgh EH12 6EL.
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Each reference in parentheses is to the issue number followed by the page numbers.
The following account of M'Cheyne appeared shortly after his death in The Free Churchman (1843), vol. 1, no. 2, pp. 44-50. This periodical, published in Calcutta, was intended to convey to readers in India 'information relative to the course and nature of the solemn events which have lately terminated in the disruption of the Established Church of Scotland'. All the missionaries of the Church of Scotland in India (in Calcutta, Madras and Bombay) had left the Established Church at the Disruption. They included such men as Alexander Duff, William Sinclair Mackay and David Ewart whose careers are described in The St. Andrews Seven by Stuart Piggin and John Roxburgh, published by the Trust (ISBN 0 85151 428 6, 144 pp., large paperback, £4.95/$9.99). The author of the appreciation of M'Cheyne was a London minister, the Rev. James Hamilton.
Hyperlinks mine - ed.[DFH]. The original title of this article was, "On the Rev. Robert M. McCheyne, late minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee".
The above information was obtained from Reformed Christian Sources Index, an electronic index to Reformation Today, The Banner of Truth and the Puritan/Westminster Conferences created by librarian Michael Keen of Aberystwyth.
There is a further two-part biographical article about M'Cheyne available at the web-site of Heath Christian Bookshop - a bookstore in Cardiff, Wales. Visit their "Free" menu option. For the Heath site, your web-browser needs to support frames. Even without frames support, the biographical articles can be visited directly as follows:
The same site also has a biography of William Chalmers Burns, who was the young assistant minister standing in for M'Cheyne at St Peter's, while M'Cheyne was on the Mission of Inquiry. It was during this period that the revival started in Kilsyth, and spread to include Dundee. Burns later went on to be a missionary in China. For more about W.C. Burns, see also my M'Cheyne's friends page.
Yet another biographical article has recently appeared on the Internet. This one is by George McGuinness, and is found on the web-site of Blessed Hope Ministries, which is based in Gainesville, Georgia. The site contains many other articles by famous Puritan & Reformed authors and preachers. In addition to the above biographical article, they include M'Cheyne's sermon, "The Christian's Warfare".
See also the short biographical portrait (taken from Stewart's book) at the web-site of Sovereign Grace Articles. A visit to this site is recommended.
Canton Baptist Temple, Canton, Ohio has a web-site with portraits of a number of figures from Church History. This brief biography of McCheyne is alongside his portrait in colour, which is part of their series of "Original Oil Paintings of Remarkable Christians". I guess this portrait is based on an earlier drawing or etching.
Another brief biography of M'Cheyne found here on the Gospel Guardian web-site.
These are a few facts about McCheyne listed by Webzone. As with a number of other sites, they use the less correct McCheyne form of spelling instead of M'Cheyne.
This is one of several short biographical sketches under the theme Prayer Makes History, which are to be found on the web-site of The Watchword which is an organisation providing resources related to Revivals. This series includes similar articles on Andrew A. Bonar and William C. Burns, who were among M'Cheyne's friends.
A short biography of M'Cheyne was found on the web-site of The Remnant International, but I should point out that as a cessationist (just as was M'Cheyne himself) I am not in sympathy with the main focus of this site.
This addition to my own web-site lists several of the Church of Scotland ministers who were closely associated with Robert Murray M'Cheyne.
Special guest essay on this web-site by Clint Humfrey, student at Toronto Baptist Seminary. [browser requires frames]
Sub-title: Spiritual Friendship as a Means of Grace in the lives of Robert Murray M'Cheyne and His Companions.
This article has also now been posted on-line by the Banner of Truth at M'Cheyne and His Companions (but is without the footnotes).
This small booklet by J. Moffat Scott is referred to on page 81 of the book "M'Cheyne from the Pew" by Kirkwood Hewat. It was probably published at the close of the nineteenth century, and must be long out of print. No other details available.
This is an out-of-print booklet that was published in 1978 by Handsel Publications (formerly of Dundee). The company is now called Handsel Press.
The chapter on McCheyne is now posted on this web-site with the kind permission of Rev. Jock Stein.
An article originally published in the January 1987 issue of Life and Work, the magazine of the Church of Scotland. This is posted on this web-site with the kind permission of the author.
This article appeared in the Reformed Theological Journal Volume 15 (1999). RTJ is a publication of the Faculty of the Reformed Theological College in Northern Ireland, and is available from November each year. Postal address: Cameron House, 98 Lisburn Road, Belfast BT9 6AG.
This biographical article appeared in Volume 6, issue 22 of the New Englander and Yale review of April 1848, published by W.L. Kingsley of New Haven. The article was on pages 219-230 of this issue. This journal has been made available by the Cornell University Library as part of its Making of America collection. This journal is available online in GIF image format only, but there is also an uncorrected OCR text version available online at the US Library of Congress American Memory website, with links back to Cornell. The article is a descriptive review of "The works of the late Rev. Robert Murray McCheyne, Minister of St. Peter's Church, Dundee. Complete in two volumes. Vol. I, containing his Life and Remains, Letters, Lectures, Songs of Zion, &c. New York : Robert Carter." In the 'Index of Books Noticed and Reviewed', the article is listed as "McCheyne, (R. M.), Life and Writings of, reviewed, by A. P. Marvin, VI, 219."
From the first American edition of Memoir and Remains which was published in 1844 at Philadelphia, by the Presbyterian Board of Publication.
This is a short biographical item by Shawn Roberson which appeared in Volume 2, issue 1 of the on-line New Christendom Journal.
This is a paper by John S. Ross which was given at the International Jewish Evangelical Fellowship (IJEF) Conference held in 2004. It retells the story of the visit of Robert M'Cheyne, Andrew Bonar, Alexander Black and Alexander Keith to Palestine in 1839, as first portrayed in the book Mission of Inquiry ..... Rev. Dr. John S. Ross is the minister of Greyfriars Stratherrick Free Church of Scotland.
Historical Theology
The following two citations were obtained from the ATLA Religion DB, and kindly supplied by a library user at Indiana State University.
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